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Archives for October 2012

Operation Christmas Child: How I’m teaching my children to consider others this Christmas

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National Collection week for Operation Christmas Child is November 12-19, 2012.  Operation Christmas Child is a ministry program from Samaritan’s Purse whose mission is to demonstrate God’s love to needy children throughout the world, in a very tangible way, on Christmas Day.   This year our family is participating in Operation Christmas Child. I can […]

Adoption: What I’ve learned 2 years later

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When we first adopted Bean I think we were “drinking the adoption Kool-Aid”.  There were so many thoughts and beliefs I had concerning adoption, how we would relate to our daughter’s birth parents and how we would discuss her adoption with her.  But  I’m not really sure that any of them were mine.  They were […]